Marrying Louis Toussaint out of sheer desperation to escape her life as a waitress and the object of her stepfather's affection, sixteen-year-old Nita finds her life filled with anticipation and disappointment that reaches a disastrous pinnacle when ...
A young boy in the Louisiana bayou is different than all of the men in his life: small, weak, effeminate. Through his eyes we see everything, from the mundane to the fantastical, the intricacies of Cajun life on the bayou, the trappings of masculinit...